Richard Basehart Movies

Through interviews, archival footage, photos and classic tunes, learn about the remarkable career and troubled life of legendary jazz cornetist Bix...

An unemployed actor, Lionel Amblin, is hired to kill a young girl before she reaches her 25th birthday. He becomes curious to know why someone would...

After Detective Michael Long is shot and left for dead, he is saved by the eccentric billionaire Wilton Knight. He is given a new face by plastic...

A mining engineer, who is shunned by his peers for his unorthodox beliefs concerning the whereabouts of large uranium deposits, joins forces with a...

The son of an ailing nobleman returns to France to clear his name and prove where the true guilt lies.

When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the...

A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.

The events surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, dramatized using simulated documentary footage.

Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's...

The Yanks Are Coming is a 1963 documentary film produced by Marshall Flaum and narrated by Richard Basehart. It was nominated for an Academy Award...

Two couples on a camping trip are hunted by two tigers set upon them by a crazed animal trainer.

This Yves Allegret film is set in French Polynesia and stars Edmond O'Brien, Richard Basehart, Andrea Parisy, Nicole Berger and Reg Lye. Basehart is...

Three jailbirds— a surgeon, a robber, and a wrongly convicted man— must adjust to their lives once released from prison.

Documentary about ancient Egypt, its temples, paintings and art, and how these old treasures are being endangered by modern civilization. Also shown...

Survey of Zionist history: Theodor Herzl's idea of creating a Jewish state; the return to Palestine; Allenby entering Jerusalem; Tel Aviv, 1933; the...

A collection of Irish legends and sightings, featuring eerie ruins of castles. A moody film, very well narrated by Richard Basehart. Rich in...

This 1964 film shows the capture of and preparation for the prosecution of the principal defendants at the International Military Tribunal at...

High in the bamboo-forested mountain ranges of central China live the elusive and endangered giant panda. Over time, their numbers have dwindled due...

This film discusses what had been learned about the planet Mars from Earth-based telescopes, observations from the fly-by Mariner spacecraft, and...